BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 145 



Omilteme, Guerrero, May 29).— Snydee, Trans. Roy, Can. Inst., xxii, 1938, 

 186 (western Rainy River district, Ontario; breeds). — Obebholsee, Bird 

 Life Louisiana, 1938, 203 (fairly common winter resident, Aug. 1-May 24, 

 in southern Louisiana ; migrant in central and northern Louisiana ) . — 

 BoEEix, Condor, xl, 1938, 181 (Brewster County, Tex., Oct.).— Webb, Condor, 

 xli, 19.39, 36 (Deep Springs "Valley, Inyo County, Calif .) .—Poland, Auk, Iv, 

 1938, 128 (Leetown, W. Va., several August records). — Bennett and 

 Hendbickson, Auk, Ivi, 1939, 36 (adapt, to environment). — Walkinshaw, 

 Auk, Ivi, 1939, 230 in text (eggs).— Lincoln, Auk, Ivi, 1939, 331 (breeding, 

 Langley Field, Va.). 

 [Porzana] caroling Gundlach, Rep. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1865-66, 361. — Coues, 

 Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 274. — Sclateb and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 

 1873, 139.— CoKY, List Birds West Indies, 1885, and rev. ed., 1886, 30.— 

 Shakpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 101. — Brabouene and Chubb, Birds South Amer- 

 ica, i, 1912, 24 (Colombia; Ecuador; Trinidad). 

 Plorzana] Carolina Ridgway, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., New York, x, 1874, 387 

 (Illinois) ; Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 139.— Newton (A. and E.), Handb. 

 Jamaica, 1881, 114.— Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 673.— 

 Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Om. Club, xlviii, 1928, 122 (eggs). 

 Porzana Carolina ? Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1877, 748 (Santa 



Lucia, Peru). 

 [Araniidesl Carolina Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 60, No. 10431. 

 Crex Carolina Feantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 375 (Costa Rica). — Harting, 



Man. Brit. Birds, 1872, 152. 

 [Galeolimnas] carolinus Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 



320. 

 [Ralhis] porzana (not of Linnaeus) Gmelin., Syst. Nat, i, pt. 2, 1789, 712, part. 

 Rallus porzana Tueton, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 430, part. 

 [GalMnvla] porzana Latham, Index Om., ii, 1790, 772, part. 

 Rallus virginianus (not of Linnaeus) Wilson, Amer. Om., vi, 1812, 27, pi. 48, 



fig. 1.— Stone, Auk. xlvii, 1930, 560 in text. 

 Rallus stolidus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., xxviii, 1819, 567 (new name for 



Rallus carolinus Linnaeus). 

 Rallus olivaceus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., xxviii, 1819, 561 ("Sainte 

 Domingue" ; young sora rail). 



PORZANA FLAVIVENTER GOSSII (Bonaparte) 



Jamaican Yellow-bellied Rail 



Adult (sexes alike). — Forehead, crown, occiput, and nape chaetura 

 drab to chaetura black; scapulars, interscapulars, back, and rump 

 Saccardo's umber to snuff brown, the scapulars and interscapulars 

 with white shaft stripes bordered broadly with fuscous-black to black, 

 the feathers of the back and rump with relatively indistinct dusky 

 centers and, occasionally with short white terminal shaft streaks or 

 tenninal median spots, the brown more rufescent on the rump, the 

 brown palest on the scapulars — clay color to deep cinnamon-buff; 

 upper wing coverts like the scapulars but with the blackish and the 

 white areas much reduced, the white sometimes in the form of small 

 bars; remiges deep olive-brown; upper tail coverts largely blackish 



